Word: attempting
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Harvard students are far too jaded about the weather. It changes so often, they figure, that any attempt to check it on the cover of the newspaper or even on the online quickly-updated Web pages is not going to be a reliable source of whether they can go for a morning jog without facing gale-force winds and whether they should take the tunnels to breakfast. Stick your hand out the window, an average instruction might be, and figure...
...difficult to decide which aspect of the Fordham defense to attack. Although the Rams have given up 182 yards per game through the air, they've also yielded over 250 yards on the ground per game to go along with a disappointing 6.1 yards per rushing attempt...
...Lesbian, Transgender and Supporters' Alliance (BGLTSA). This snotty clique of narcissists has overstepped not only the bounds of decency but quite possibly those of legality with Tuesday's obscene barrage of shock propaganda (News, Oct. 12). Supporters of equal rights for all people should be outraged at the attempt by the propagandists to appropriate homosexuals for their own self-serving game of limit-pushing...
...fair, the impetus comes mostly from the firms that are recruiting. Local non-profits, magazines, school districts and Congress have few built-in mechanisms or resources to come here and woo us. OCS does attempt to present a variety of other options (or at least, direct us to the ubiquitous "binders in the downstairs reading room"). We should expect more of OCS, though. Compared to the convenience of the recruiting process, finding information about other fields is a much more arduous a task. Students who pursue other fields must be largely selfguided...
Wooten came back weaker after his mid-set break on both nights, but he recovered for the encore. The weakness stemmed from minor problems with the band's talent level, which can be attributed to an attempt to be inclusive. Wooten's band contained both his middle brother Joseph, a keyboard player, and Regi, his oldest brother and a guitarist. Joseph's cheesy pop material was irritating, especially his "Hero" from 1987, but Wooten recovered thanks to his improvisational wizardry...